SYDNEY — A Sydney nurse has been charged with making threats after she appeared in an internet video saying she wouldn’t deal with Israeli sufferers.
Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, was arrested Tuesday night time and charged with the federal offenses of threatening violence to a gaggle, utilizing a carriage service to threaten to kill and utilizing a carriage service to menace and harass, police mentioned in an announcement. The costs carried a possible most penalty of twenty-two years in jail.
Neither a protection lawyer nor Abu Lebdeh has commented on the fees. She was launched on bail to look in a Sydney court docket March 19.
Abu Lebdeh and one other nurse, Ahmed Rashid Nadir, have been suspended from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital on Feb. 12 over an internet trade the night time earlier than with Israeli influencer Max Veifer. Abu Lebdeh mentioned she wouldn’t deal with Israeli sufferers whereas Nadir urged he had killed Israelis.
Nadir has but to be interviewed by police.
The hospital examined affected person information and located no proof that the nurses had harmed sufferers.
Australia has skilled a surge in antisemitic assaults and rhetoric which have roiled the nation as houses, places of work and companies have been vandalized and a college and two synagogues have been torched in simply over a 12 months with crimes concentrating on Jews.
